Giorgia Meloni pictured in Trento, Italy, just weeks before being elected Prime Minister on 25 September 2022.Photo: Pierre Teyssot/Shutterstock

Meloni’s canny game

Italy’s extremist prime minister is courting politicians abroad even as she enacts an authoritarian agenda of hate at home. But Giorgia Meloni’s embrace by the mainstream needs to end, argues Elena Siniscalco.

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NI 548 - South Africa 30 years later - March, 2024
Illustration: Emma Peer

Introducing... Elly Schlein

The newly elected leader of Italy’s main opposition Italian Democratic Party (PD).

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NI 544 - Palestine - July, 2023
Illustration: Thewet Nonthachai/Shutterstock

Shadow courts

Juliet Ferguson investigates the Energy Charter Treaty, an international agreement which could be very bad news for energy policy across the Global South.

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NI 532 - Courage and terror in Myanmar - July, 2021
Italy is under pressure to stop using offshore quarantine ferries like the Allegra.Photo: Karlos Zurutuza

Deadly quarantine

Italy is under pressure to stop using offshore quarantine ferries, reports Karlos Zurutuza.

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NI 531 - Vaccine equality - May, 2021
A migrant worker draws attention to the plight of seasonal tomato pickers in Puglia, southern Italy, 2018.Photo: Roberto D'agostino/AFP/Getty

Pain-free pomodoro

Report from Italy by Alessio Perrone.

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NI 524 - How we make poverty - March, 2020
Democracy vs oil

Democracy vs oil

Report from Italy by Alessio Perrone.

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NI 521 - Who owns the sea? - September, 2019
Photo: Alex Mateo / Alamy

Hall of Infamy: Matteo Salvini

Matteo Salvini, Italy’s ‘refugee drowner-in-chief’, is put under the spotlight.

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NI 517 - Trade in Turmoil - January, 2019
Infected by Xylella, an olive tree that locals say is 1,500 years old, stands dead in Apulia, Italy.Photo: Antonio Sorrentino / Luz / Eyevine

Save the olives

Xylella is behind an unprecedented crisis in southern Apulia.

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NI 515 - Making peace in a world at war - September, 2018
Pio and friends – keeping the family business going.

Mixed Media: Film

The Ciambra directed and written by Jonas Carpignano;
In the Fade directed and co-written by Fatih Akin.

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NI 513 - A better media is possible - June, 2018

Kids at work

What is life really like for millennials? What kind of jobs do they do? What do they make of their precarious futures? We look at the lives of three young people across the world: a Gambian migrant in Italy, a Dalit student in India, and a trans vlogger in the UK.

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NI 509 - What's left for the young? - January, 2018
Italians obstruct ‘Europe’s Keystone’ pipeline in Puglia

Italians obstruct ‘Europe’s Keystone’ pipeline in Puglia

Protests in southern Italy have delayed plans for construction of a vast natural-gas pipeline into Europe, writes Sarah Shoraka.

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NI 503 - Homelessness - June, 2017
Photo: Niccolò Caranti / commons.wikimedia.org

Introducing Virginia Raggi

The politician symbolizes a shot across the bow of Italy’s complacent political class, writes Richard Swift.

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NI 495 - Trade unions - rebuild, renew, resist - September, 2016
Photo: Jerry Wingard under a CC Licence

Reasons to be cheerful

Stories to give us cheer this month.

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NI 492 - Technology justice - May, 2016

Articles in this category displayed as a table:

Article title From magazine Publication date
South Africa 30 years later March, 2024
Palestine July, 2023
The cost of living crisis January, 2023
Food justice: who gets to eat? September, 2021
Courage and terror in Myanmar July, 2021
Vaccine equality May, 2021
How we make poverty March, 2020
Who owns the sea? September, 2019
Trade in Turmoil January, 2019
Making peace in a world at war September, 2018
A better media is possible June, 2018
What's left for the young? January, 2018
Homelessness June, 2017
Trade unions - rebuild, renew, resist September, 2016
Technology justice May, 2016
Land grabs May, 2013
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